Better forum

1100110 0b1100110 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 14:26:55 PST 2012


On 12/06/2012 04:16 PM, deed wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 December 2012 at 20:37:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 12/7/2012 5:01 AM, deed wrote:
>>> If all posts at D Learn could have been tagged by subject and easily
>>> looked up in a structured subject tree, as in the language reference, I
>>> belive it could complement the documentation in a useful manner.
>>
>> There is immense value in these ng postings, but absent a human
>> curator for it, the best that can be done is use google to search them.
>
> Someone would have to set up the subject structure under D.Learn. Then a
> possibly required input field (thinking web interface) could specify the
> subject the question belongs to. A voting system would then sort the
> responses after relevance and usefulness. It would help building useful,
> easy accessible and comprehensive documentation.
>
> Also, language and library debates could be tagged by subject and the
> posts could be rated by votes in order to organize and extract key
> points out of long threads.

....So basically Stack Exchange.

Why not simply point people to stackoverflow tag [d]?

The infrastructure is already in place for pretty much exactly what you 
are talking about, and several of the people here have accounts there.


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